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George Rogers Clark holds a powwow with Indian representatives of numerous tribes at Cahokia. With the help of Richard McCarty, now a captain in the Cahokia militia, he is able to win their oath of neutrality in the war with the British.

TREATY AT CAHOKIA George Rogers Clark and Reverend Peter Gibault (Black Robed) treating with Indians in August and September 1778.--From a painting over the grand stair case on west interior of the State House at Springfield, Illinois

Richard McCarty's original mill and post are swept away by a great flood while he is wading through the drowned lowlands with George Rogers Clark's Virginia army on a mission to capture Vincennes from the British. It was never rebuilt.

Captain Piggott organizes a group to leave Fort Pitt and float down the Ohio River in keelboats to migrate to George Rogers Clark's new settlement at Fort Jefferson, Kentucky. Each settler is promised a reward of 400 acres by Clark. (Clark Jr. High on State Street is named for him.)